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...There are more than 10 million refugees and displaced persons in various parts of the world. Current U.S. law technically permits 17,400 such refugees to settle annually in America and become citizens after five years of permanent residency. But last fiscal year, using emergency "parole" power, Attorney General Griffin Bell permitted entry of 18,000 Soviet Jews and 25,000 Indochinese. In March he announced another such parole: 25,000 Soviet and Eastern European refugees (mostly Jews) and 35,000 Indochinese will be allowed in by October. Bell is uncomfortable with such an improvised approach to refugee admissions...
...first assassination of an important figure since the Shah's ouster three months ago. Two weeks earlier Major General Mohammed Vali Gharani, who was army chief of staff briefly under the revolutionary government, had been shot down outside his home by three unknown attackers. But Motahari's killing was especially ominous, since he was a member of the Revolutionary Council, a group of clergymen and other figures who report to the revolution's spiritual leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the provisional government of Prime Minister Bazargan. The names of the members of the Revolutionary Council have never...
...always been reserved for whites. The government hopes the proposals will be seen as evidence that South Africa is pushing its labor practices more into line with those being urged on foreign companies there by the Common Market and by the U.S.'s Rev. Leon Sullivan, the General Motors director who has drawn up a list of fair labor practices that many American firms in South Africa have agreed to follow. To judge by the angry reaction of several of South Africa's white labor leaders, the Wiehahn proposals must seem fairly far reaching. Wessel Bornman, chief secretary...
...that is notably free of corruption, has never fought a war with its neighbors, never held a political prisoner, and does not bother to arm its police. Its currency is stable and its economy remarkably robust. It has a multiparty parliamentary system and is preparing to hold its fourth general election since it attained independence from Britain in 1966. The country is Botswana, and its state of health is all the more remarkable for the fact that it is encircled by the major states of conflict in the region: Rhodesia, South Africa, Namibia (South West Africa), Angola and Zambia...
...nearly two years, federal investigators have been probing overpricing in the oil industry, and last week they made their biggest charges yet. Even as the General Accounting Office was leaking a report criticizing the Department of Energy for foot dragging in its petro-probes of smaller middlemen, DOE was accusing seven of the largest oil companies of overcharging refineries by $1.7 billion since 1973. The alleged method: selling petroleum at far higher prices than permitted under domestic crude-oil controls...